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Why does NASA's Curiosity rover have a 'lucky penny' on Mars? | Space photo of the day for May 6, 2026

Providing good luck to the first Martian to find it.

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10 hidden spots in Spain to see the rare sunset total solar eclipse on Aug. 12

From desert badlands to hilltop villages, these off-the-beaten-track locations offer clear views of Spain's rare sunset total solar eclipse.

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Scientists created one of the largest simulations of our universe ever — about the size of 500,000 HD movies

The FLAMINGO project helps scientists explore how galaxies, dark matter and cosmic structures evolved over billions of years.

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Solar activity makes space junk crash to Earth faster

Scientists studied how space junk moved in orbit over a 36-year span, finding that increased solar activity caused it to fall to Earth faster.

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Mexico City is sinking up to 14 inches per year, satellite images show

Mexico City is one of the fastest subsiding cities in the world, dropping by up to 14 inches every year.

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NASA just released 12,000 photos from Artemis 2. Here are our top picks

You could spend hours scrolling through the thousands of photos just released by NASA from the Artemis 2 moon mission.

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Watch SpaceX Starlink train circle Earth in amazing satellite video

A video captured by a newly launched SpaceX Starlink satellite shows us what it's like to zoom above our beautiful blue planet.

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A tiny 'plutino' world beyond Neptune has grown a mysterious atmosphere, and we don't know how

A trans-Neptunian object was found to possess a surprising thin atmosphere after astronomers witnessed the object occult a distant star.

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Moon lander preps for the lunar surface | Space photo of the day for May 6, 2026

Blue Origin's MK1 moon lander has passed its tests in the vacuum chamber as NASA continues to develop the hardware needed to return astronauts to the moon.

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'SOL Shogunate' is a samurai space opera set on the moon, but with an aerospace engineer making sure it's 'getting the science right'

Chaos Manufacturing CEO Guy Costantini and aerospace engineer Taylore McClurg tell us about the process of creating a believable but striking lunar adventure.

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These 2 companies want to start removing space junk from orbit in 2027

Two private companies are partnering up to establish a repeatable debris removal service for low Earth orbit, and they want to debut it in 2027.

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Former NASA chief Jim Bridenstine takes over as CEO of Quantum Space

Former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine is the new CEO of Quantum Space, a company developing maneuverable spacecraft for use by the U.S. military and commercial operators.

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NASA is making a powerful new ion engine to send astronauts to Mars — and it just passed its 1st test

A prototype ion engine that uses lithium metal vapor as a propellant has aced its first tests, achieving 25 times more power than the ion engine on the Psyche mission.

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NASA wants to land astronauts on the moon in 2028. Will SpaceX's Starship or Blue Origin's Blue Moon lander be ready in time?

After Artemis 2, NASA's moon return hinges on two unproven commercial landers, each of which faces major technical and timeline challenges.

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Trump's proposed NASA budget is a 'horrible threat to our future' in space, Planetary Society CEO says

In conversation with Space.com, the new Planetary Society CEO talked about the fight to restore NASA's funding again 2027.

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James Webb Space Telescope directly studies an exoplanet's surface for the 1st time: 'We see a dark, hot, barren rock'

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have directly analyzed the surface of a distant super-Earth, revealing a dark, airless, Mercury-like world.

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Watch the Eta Aquarid meteor shower 2026 online tonight with these livestreams

Watch Eta Aquarid meteors streak across the sky live from observatories and sky cams around the world.

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Are streamers losing faith in legacy sci-fi franchises?

Does the cancellation of 'Starfleet Academy' suggest that lean times are ahead for 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars'?

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Will the moon ruin the Eta Aquarid meteor shower this week? Here's what to know

A bright waning gibbous moon may wash out this week's Eta Aquarid meteor shower peak — but early risers could still catch a few shooting stars.

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Our Milky Way's 'Zone of Avoidance' holds a galaxy supercluster with 30,000 trillion times the sun's mass

The Vela Supercluster, in our Milky Way's Zone of Avoidance, is competing gravitationally with other superclusters for the attention of local galaxies.

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Lasers take aim at a galaxy far, far away | Space photo of the day for May 4, 2026

Looking like a scene out of "Star Wars," this image shows the ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) beaming four separate lasers into the sky towards the Tarantula Nebula.

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What's the best time to see Eta Aquarid meteors tonight?

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks this week, but will you be able to see it?

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A YouTuber just recreated the original Star Wars with cardboard, and it's awesome (video)

Star Wars superfan and YouTube sensation Zach King recreates the seminal 1977 sci-fi film using cardboard.

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13 International 'Star Wars' Posters You've Likely Never Seen

From Japan to Turkey, celebrate Star Wars Day with this global collection of original trilogy posters.

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Why were galaxies so active in the early universe? We may be getting close to the answer

Early galaxies were star-forming machines, gobbling up gas and spitting out stars with a furious intensity. A new model helps explain why things were so different back then.

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